Years of war, interrogation, surveillance, etc. to discover that
real name of the courier who went by nom de guerre Abu Ahmad
al-Kuwaiti is--Abu Ahmad from Kuwait? Really? Is the CIA
just pulling everyone's leg?

Whoever he was, in the summer of 2010, he made a phone call to an
individual being monitored by U.S. intelligence. The intelligence
agencies never let him out of their sight, and he eventually led
them to a heavily fortified compound in Pakistan too suspicious
to ignore.